JV DAN - Key Persons

Whitney MacMillan was the Chair Executive Officer of his family business Cargill, which under his tenure expanded to Kazakhstan and became co-founders of JV DAN. Whitney MacMillan was born in Orono, Minnesota in 1929. He graduated from Yale University with a major in History. In 1951 he entered Cargill in the department of oil trade, and quickly climbed the career ladder due to his leadership abilities. Thus, he became the CEO of Cargill in 1976. Under the tenure of Whitney MacMillan Cargill's annual turnover grew to $33 billion, and by the 1980s Cargill became the largest grain company, responsible for the quarter of the world grain trade. Whitney MacMillan retired in 1995 as a chairman and CEO of Cargill, the world's largest privately-owned company.